<p class="title">Indrani Mukerjea, the prime accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, told a special CBI court here on Wednesday that she was ready to undergo a lie-detector test.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She submitted a handwritten application before special judge J C Jagdale, conveying her willingness to undergo a polygraph (commonly known as lie detector) test.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In 2015, Indrani had refused to give her consent to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to subject her to a lie-detector test.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the law, an accused cannot be made to undergo such tests without his or her consent.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"In October 2015, I had not given consent...because I was under tremendous pressure not to undergo the test," she said in the application.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She succumbed to the pressure as she was in a "state of shock", was "mentally disturbed" and "vulnerable and physically unwell", she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Now she was "emotionally more settled", Indrani added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I realise that I should have never succumbed to such pressure. It is only right and proper in the name of justice that I undergo the polygraph test as out of the 200 witnesses, only 35 have deposed so far. The investigation is also still continuing...," she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Indrani was arrested in August, 2015 for allegedly killing her daughter Sheena (24) with the help of others on April 24, 2012 and disposing of the body in a forest in neighbouring Raigad district.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Her husband and former media baron Peter Mukerjea and her former husband Sanjeev Khanna too have been arrested in the case.</p>
<p class="title">Indrani Mukerjea, the prime accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, told a special CBI court here on Wednesday that she was ready to undergo a lie-detector test.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She submitted a handwritten application before special judge J C Jagdale, conveying her willingness to undergo a polygraph (commonly known as lie detector) test.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In 2015, Indrani had refused to give her consent to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to subject her to a lie-detector test.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the law, an accused cannot be made to undergo such tests without his or her consent.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"In October 2015, I had not given consent...because I was under tremendous pressure not to undergo the test," she said in the application.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She succumbed to the pressure as she was in a "state of shock", was "mentally disturbed" and "vulnerable and physically unwell", she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Now she was "emotionally more settled", Indrani added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I realise that I should have never succumbed to such pressure. It is only right and proper in the name of justice that I undergo the polygraph test as out of the 200 witnesses, only 35 have deposed so far. The investigation is also still continuing...," she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Indrani was arrested in August, 2015 for allegedly killing her daughter Sheena (24) with the help of others on April 24, 2012 and disposing of the body in a forest in neighbouring Raigad district.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Her husband and former media baron Peter Mukerjea and her former husband Sanjeev Khanna too have been arrested in the case.</p>